Transportation

On Topic

Highway, rail and aviation systems are vital to the national and global economy. They move our citizens and our products and they allow us to be more productive – but they can also contribute to sprawl, air pollution and global warming. Brookings experts look at how to most productively invest in our transportation infrastructure.

A long line of passengers wait for security at checkpoint before boarding their aircraft at Reagan National Airport in Washington (REUTERS/Larry Downing).

Opinion

How to Avoid Another FAA Fiasco

May 8, 2013, Clifford Winston

The United States will experience more costly disruptions to its transportation system, such as the recent air traffic control cuts unless its deficits are curbed by efficient policy reforms or by privatization, writes Clifford Winston.

Recent Activity

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Book

Urban and Regional Policy and Its Effects
Volume 3

2010, Hal Wolman, Howard Wial and Nancy Pindus, eds.
Book

Last Exit
Privatization and Deregulation of the U.S. Transportation System

2010, Clifford Winston
Book

Plug-In Electric Vehicles
What Role for Washington?

2009, David B. Sandalow, ed.
Book

Aviation Infrastructure Performance
A Study in Comparative Political Economy

2008, Clifford Winston and Gines de Rus, eds.
Book

Alternate Route
Toward Efficient Urban Transportation

1998, Chad Shirley and Clifford Winston
Book

The Economic Effects of Surface Freight Deregulation

1990, Carol A. Evans, Clifford Winston, Curtis Grimm and Thomas M. Corsi
Journal

Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, Microeconomics 1989

1989, Clifford Winston and Martin Neil Baily, eds.